Returning (to) Communities: Theory, Culture and Political Practice of the Communal (Critical Studies: Readings in the Post Colonial Literatures in English, 28)

Returning (to) Communities offers an innovative collection of examples and case studies into what has become a hotly disputed topic. The chapters present a wide-ranging series of interventions into the new debates over the concepts and practices of "community" and the communal. For this book, scholars have been gathered from across Europe and Australia as well as from the United States, and several contributors are involved in community practice. Returning (to) Communities is essential reading to researchers and students in social policy, sociology, ethnic studies, cultural analysis, media studies, and across all of the social sciences and humanities concerned with the communal and the collective. Section 1 : Conceptualising Communities. Comprehending Community / Richard Tyler -- Theorising Europe From The Other Shore : Derrida, Community And The Exemplarity Of Europe / Ivan Callus -- Heterogeneous Community: Beyond New Traditionalism / Thomas A. Lewis -- Stanley Fish Meets Jean-paul Sartre : Community, Difference And Multicultural Theory / Lou Caton -- Thomas Kuhn's Construction Of Scientific Communities / Ipek Demir -- Jean-luc Nancy : An Attempt To Reduce Community To Ontology / Oleg Domanov -- Webs As Pegs / David Bell -- Section 2 : Communities And Cultural Praxis. Multilingualism And Its Discontents : Hetero-lingual Collectivity And The Critique Of Homo-lingual Communities / Antony Adolf -- Cultural Property And Collective Identity / Elizabeth Coleman -- Community In Resources, Tradition In Knowledge / Johanna Gibson -- Britain's Railway Engineers : The First Virtual Global Communitites? / Di Drummond -- Nazi Fans But Not Neo-nazis : The Cultural Community Of Wwii Fanatics / Eva Kingsepp -- Putting The Cult Back Into Community / Jackie Mcmillan -- Mediated Self-representations : Ordinary People In Communities / Nancy Thumim -- Community And Communitities In British Television Ads / Renée Dickason -- The Bubble Of Diaspora : Perpetuating Us Through Sacred Ideas / Bano Murtuja Section 3 : Communities And Political Practice. The Gay Community : Stablising Political Construct Or Oppressive Regulatory Regime? / Tammy Grimshaw -- Cull Maff! : The Mobilisation Of The Farming Community During The 2001 Foot And Mouth Disease (fmd) Epidemic / Sam Hillyard -- Conflict And Cohesion : Official Construction Of Community Around The 2001 Riots In Britain / Paul Bagguley And Yasmin Hussain -- Aboriginal Politics, Self-determination And The Rhetoric Of Community / George Morgan -- Building Heavens, Havens Or Hells? Community As Policy In The Context Of The Post-washington Consensus / Marjorie Mayo. Edited By Stefan Herbrechter And Michael Higgins. Includes Bibliographical References. Available Also On The Internet At Http://www.ingentaconnect.com (viewed Mar. 27, 2006).